RIP Tom T. Hall

[4th&Five 41701]

Damn. 

 

Edited August 21, 2021 by 4th&Five

[VABuckeye 2472]

Damn. Gonna have to have a sip of Watermelon Wine

[Mitch Cumsteen 18656]

Thank you for your precious time. Forgive me if I start to crying. 

RIP. 

[Lat22 4051]

Damn. RIP. 

[smoky 842]

... and onions

I love winners when they cry, losers when they try

Music when it's good and life

And I love you too

Edited August 21, 2021 by smoky

[Hornius Emeritus 12496]

One of the truly great songs about Texas:
 

 

[cactusflinthead 27615]

Damn. 

Another legend gone

[UTCzech III 2907]

Just saw this on facebook, dammit.  I actually was putting together a Tom T. Hall setlist a year or so ago and was surprised to find at that time that he was still alive.  One of the all time great storytellers.

Started humming this tune as I was looking for a version to post, and noticed it has the same chord structure (and even rhythmic structure to a point) of one of his biggest songs (that he gave away), Harper Valley PTA:

 

A couple other favorites:

 

and of course:

 

[Pato del Muerto 52865]

This is the one, fellas. 
 

 

[Longhornstampede 3192]

I love this version. It's a gift that he wrote it and she sang it

Deryl Dodd did it justice too

 

Edited August 21, 2021 by Longhornstampede

[NWBuck 8590]

Damn...

This year, we discovered a craft root beer place and my youngest adopted a ball python. So, this has become an anthem of sorts for us:

 

[Rip76 4986]

 

[Buzzrock 15026]

Well shit. Who’s gonna feed them hogs now?

RIP TTH

[Longhornstampede 3192]

Started listening to some more. Drinking with a tear in my eye. The wife says she understands. Love that girl

Edited August 22, 2021 by Longhornstampede

[Hornius Emeritus 12496]

[Chad Fuck 17840]

Huge loss.  So many good tunes.  If you ever get a chance to listen to "The Storyteller's Nashville" do it.  It's a great portrait of a fascinating time and place.

 

[Chad Fuck 17840]

Then there was this entire record.  I remember when I dad got it he showed it off to all his musician friends paying particular attention the John Prine cover "Paradise."  He liked it so much, in addition to the LP, he went and bought an 8 track for the car.  It's a record I never have tired of.  Probably because it's the first bluegrass record I ever paid attention to.  Plus it had this crazy 70s cartoon on the cover that fascinated pre-school Chad.  I still spin it all the time.  

[Deej 77168]

Shocked he was only 85.

[hullabelew 3724]

On 8/22/2021 at 4:57 AM, Hornius Emeritus said:

Holy shit!

[hullabelew 3724]

If you haven't heard this, do so...now.  https://www.audible.com/author/Tom-T-Hall/B001HQ10VY

 

Another great version of "That's How I Got To Memphis".  

And Charley Crockett:

 

[hullabelew 3724]

Kelly knocked out another Tom T. song.   She actually learned the song with the band and didn't tell Bruce.  Bruce is always taking requests and can play just about any country song and was freaking her out.  She had someone yell out Harper Valley PTA....Bruce kind of laughed and she said, "I'll take a stab at it" and they fired up the song.  The look on Bruce's face was shock.....  I wish I could find the video of that...it is around somewhere, but I like the vibe of this version.  

 

 

[mininghorn88 2320]

On 8/22/2021 at 3:57 AM, Hornius Emeritus said:

Help those of us who do not know. I am prepared to feel stupid.

[baboso 6057]

Stubbs, Tom T. Hall, and Joe Ely.

[GopherRock 1772]

I hope he rests in peace. Trouble is, the fella owes me forty bucks.

[Hornius Emeritus 12496]

1 hour ago, baboso said:

Stubbs, Tom T. Hall, and Joe Ely.

This what Joe's wife, Sharon, had to say about that night and the song Tom T. Hall wrote about it:

"RIP Tom T Hall. Tom was a great friend to STUBB’S and Joe and Paul Milosevich. This is at STUBB’S restaurant in Lubbock. STUBB’S had nailed the curtains down in all the booths so people would quit wiping there greasy bbq hands on the curtains. Tom T Hall never told STUBB’S as long as they were friends that he was a vegetarian.
 

One night At STUBB’S Joe and Tom played a pool tournament with an onion as cue ball in STUBB’S back room where he kept all the food to cook with . The pool table was back there and sometimes served as a bed for STUBB’S when he couldn’t make it home

I secretly stole the cue ball that night when Tom and Joe were in the back playing pool continuously. I was Thinking they would come out front and play music for all the people waiting to hear them since there was no cue ball. It was in my back pocket. Instead joe found a bag of onions and pulled one out and grabbed a broom for a cue stick They continued to play pool. Tom T. won because Joe scratched the cue ball/ onion. Then Tom wrote “the great east Broadway onion championship of 1978."

 

[hullabelew 3724]

On the same tribute album where Kelly does 'Memphis', Syd Straw and the Skeletons rolled out this version of Harper Valley.  This is a great album if you can find it.  

 

[You don't know me 1161]

All of the country singers that take me back to me and my dad just hanging out are passing away.  The drives to go fishing, working out in the yard or garage, etc. The lives that tie the time and memories together are disappearing.  This one hurts.

[Harrison Stafford 3353]

I like beer.  It makes me a jolly good fellow.  Hoisting a few for you tonight, Tom.  

[irishtexan 11530]

I’m embarrassed to say that I didn’t even know he had passed until today. To find out we have lost Tom T Hall and Charlie Watts on the same day is a little too much to bear.

[Lat22 4051]

He shot himself. Damn. 
https://www.billboard.com/music/country/tom-t-hall-cause-of-death-1235015914/

[Al_4_ISU 12528]

I missed this thread the first time, but fittingly that news drops on a day when it is very cold in Des Moines.

Legitimately stunned that he killed himself, unless it was a case of physical problems mounting and him just being ready to check out.  It seemed like as much as anyone, Tom T. Hall had "won" the music business - making tons of $, having fun without going off the rails, and being famous but not a "celebrity" in the obnoxious sense.

[Chad Fuck 17840]

On 1/6/2022 at 8:27 AM, Al_4_ISU said:

I missed this thread the first time, but fittingly that news drops on a day when it is very cold in Des Moines.

Legitimately stunned that he killed himself, unless it was a case of physical problems mounting and him just being ready to check out.  It seemed like as much as anyone, Tom T. Hall had "won" the music business - making tons of $, having fun without going off the rails, and being famous but not a "celebrity" in the obnoxious sense.

Damn.  Sorry to hear this is how it went down.  The last couple interviews with him looked like he'd had a stroke or was otherwise deteriorating.  It's one thing to be deteriorating and not be aware of it, but it must be quite another to look in the mirror and know exactly what's happening.  Sail on Philosopher.  

[Al_4_ISU 12528]

31 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

Damn.  Sorry to hear this is how it went down.  The last couple interviews with him looked like he'd had a stroke or was otherwise deteriorating.  It's one thing to be deteriorating and not be aware of it, but it must be quite another to look in the mirror and know exactly what's happening.  Sail on Philosopher.  

I really hope it was a case of him just beating physical deterioration to the punch as opposed to him having been haunted by depression for all these years.

[Napoleon 8710]

47 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

Damn.  Sorry to hear this is how it went down.  The last couple interviews with him looked like he'd had a stroke or was otherwise deteriorating.  It's one thing to be deteriorating and not be aware of it, but it must be quite another to look in the mirror and know exactly what's happening.  Sail on Philosopher.  

I know an extremely intelligent doctor (Ivy League English major-turned-medical student-turned-doctor-turned-medical research team writer of findings from studies for medical journals) who has ALS. Always active, running, cycling, did the dance thing in college and taught fitness classes as well. She can barely stand up most days now and she's barely past 50.

I think that she's tried to commit suicide some over the years. (She's also allergic to a ton of stuff... she's pretty fucked up.)

Sometimes the mind is the last thing to go and it's really depressing.

[Chad Fuck 17840]

33 minutes ago, Napoleon said:

I know an extremely intelligent doctor (Ivy League English major-turned-medical student-turned-doctor-turned-medical research team writer of findings from studies for medical journals) who has ALS. Always active, running, cycling, did the dance thing in college and taught fitness classes as well. She can barely stand up most days now and she's barely past 50.

I think that she's tried to commit suicide some over the years. (She's also allergic to a ton of stuff... she's pretty fucked up.)

Sometimes the mind is the last thing to go and it's really depressing.

Sorry for your friend Napoleon.  That's horrible.  

[Al_4_ISU 12528]

50 minutes ago, Napoleon said:

I know an extremely intelligent doctor (Ivy League English major-turned-medical student-turned-doctor-turned-medical research team writer of findings from studies for medical journals) who has ALS. Always active, running, cycling, did the dance thing in college and taught fitness classes as well. She can barely stand up most days now and she's barely past 50.

I think that she's tried to commit suicide some over the years. (She's also allergic to a ton of stuff... she's pretty fucked up.)

Sometimes the mind is the last thing to go and it's really depressing.

That's horrible.  ALS is the absolute worst fucking disease, IMO, and I don't blame anyone with it who takes their own life.